My father had always been an avid photographer, even taking over the bathroom for a darkroom for days on end
From this I suppose I was intrigued how everything worked. I was probably around 8 at the time.
It wasn't until I was around 14 that I started taking my own photo's & really only when my old man passed away, when I was about 20, when I inherited his Olympus OM1-n, did I start to learn the art of using a SLR.
I did try the darkroom in the early days, but got frustrated I couldn't get my Mono's like Bob Clarkes
Being impatient I also found the wait for films to be developed too much hassle, so didn't get back into photography until Digital started to bite hard ....... never looked back since
